[Sussex] Thunderbird Probs

[John Thompson]

Hi all,

Got a slight problem with my Thunderbird email - I think It's all down 
to file permissions - so someone here will be able to help me out.

My P.C. is set-up to dual boot:- Suse 9.3(raiserFS) and Windows 2000(NTFS)

I have a small partition formatted FAT32 called "Transfer"(Windows/D). 
I run Thunderbird on both OS's and keep the profile folder on this 
shared partition. Everything OK until two days ago when I logged in as 
root and did a software update.

Now Thunderbird won't load my profile on Suse saying it can't open the 
default profile. Although I notice it can write to it as it creates a 
file called .parentlock when it starts. Works OK on Windows however.

Copied the whole profile folder over to my home folder (/home/john), 
modified profile.ini to point to this new location - Thunderbird now 
works perfect!

Right, properties of the profile folder on "Transfer":-
Owner: root  Permissions:rwxrwxr-x
Not sure what this means. In Suse I can open a file properties GUI which 
says:- Owner  "Can View & Modify Content"
        Group  "Can View & Modify Content"
        Others "Can View Content"
I have to login as root to change these however (greyed out).
Am I, user: john, a member of "Group" or "Others"?
Basically, I want the whole "Transfer" drive and its subfolders 
available to all.

I expect there is a nifty command line way of setting these correctly 
and I am hoping that someone will tell me the secret!

Thanks in anticipation,

John